Posted on 04/13/2021 10:44:19 PM PDT by blueplum
For Melissa Shah, yoga has always been entirely Indian. Her first memories of the practice don’t include top buns, athleisure wear or even exercise. ...
...Shah said she felt a sense of belonging in learning unfiltered yoga among other South Asians in Queens, New York, where she grew up. But when she started visiting white-dominated studios outside her community, she says she felt excluded and uneasy, like she was participating in a foreign practice. ...
...South Asian instructors like Shah say they’ve been working to “decolonize” an industry that for decades has centered white elites.... But the cultural appropriation runs deep, experts say, and fighting it will take time....
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
I’ve been stretching like a cat and rolling around on my back like a dog since forever...
when am i going to read how blacks co-opted basketball, a white mans sport? and football?
time to get them put of these sports, they aren’t black folks’ sports.
Well, there's her problem right there! She should have "stayed in her lane" and not strayed into environmental where Whites outnumbered "her kind" and/or "set the tone."
Me and the other good ol' boys in the Klan feel the same way when we accidentally venture into territory where erstwhile minorities dominate.
Is it really necessary that I point out that I'm being sarcastic here?
Her REAL mistake? "She felt ..." What she is feeling is namely her own unconscious racism.
Regards,
Good point.
Dang!
Regards,
The left drives the wedge of racial division deeper.
But I hate them for the RIGHT reasons.
A partial list of sports created by white people:
Baseball
Basketball
American Football
Ice Hockey
Rugby
Soccer
Tennis
Golf
Track and field
Gymnastics
How does a white person practicing Westernized yoga interfere with a non-white person practicing his culture’s yoga?
I kind of agree with some of the sentiments of the article actually.
But I’m not a yoga fan personally. Pilates and ballet for me. ❤️
Sometimes privileged people have to dig pretty deep to find their victim card. This is quite a stretch, but fortunately she's a Yoga instructor and can contort herself into a pretzel to pull it off.
It's exercise stretching and muscle working....kegel, upper buttocks, triceps, lung and diaphragm muscles etc
It's zen a bit
Man if done with discipline and love , it makes best body a woman can have
Still soft and feminine supple yet toned and velvet to the caress
Truly lovely....I adore a nice yoga body
Yoga doesn't destroy the breasts....
Like weight lifting or excessive running does
The spiritual stuff is so much bullshit
My wife is 56....her 30 year old body is genetics and diligent yoga 25 years....
This woman is 72....lifetime yoga ...
It’s not.
These instructors want to limit the competition
It doesn’t. What it does do is open the market for yoga instructors to a lot more competition.
You know, there was a time when liberals extolled other cultures. In the the 90s it was “Did you learn anything about their culture?” and on and on. My how times have changed. (In addition, there was a time when liberals hated businesses and there was even a the Campaign Finance Bill that was signed because of it, and now take a look, its all woke and suits their purposes.)
Ok, take back your Indian yoga.
We will take back our software and computer industry that’s been co-opted by Indian scumbags.
Fair trade.
About 15 years ago, I took my kids to a traditional Afro-Caribbean dance demonstration. The dancers were beautiful, and the dance was amazing. Then the dancers invited everyone there (of all ages, ethnicities, etc.) to come up front and dance this traditional island dance with them. I politely declined but talked one of my kids into trying it. Back then, no one talked about “cultural appropriation.” They talked about “cultural appreciation.” How I miss those days.
Yoga is Scandinavian, nit Indian.
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